So what about your fuel supply? What did you do about the cruddy gas tank? Do you have a fresh filter in the carb? When you work the throttle does gas squirt out of the accelerator ports? Did you try squirting gas into the carb? [not too much!] It should fire for a moment then die. When you open the throttle on a cold engine does the choke close totally? Since you managed to time the engine that leaves fuel as the last problem. That is why I like to use an outboard motor portable gas tank. That way I know the gas is fresh and I can pump it into the carb with the hand pump in the fuel line. The only way to know if the fuel bowl is full is when working the throttle gets gas squirting out the accelerator ports inside the throttle bore. Here is my email- Fourspeedman@webtv.net. But keep posting here because you don't know who is following the thread and needs to learn about what is going on. That is the whole point of these boards- so others can read and learn. Like I said, every search I did led me here so I joined up.